His striking beauty took Charley's breath away. He was the Italian duke Raphael Striozzi, the owner of the garden Charley had come to restore, and she was wearing work clothes covered in mud without a speck of makeup on her face! But her work in Florence, the city of her dreams, will involve more than digging in the mud—she's staying in his mansion while she works on the property and in order to fit in she'll be dressing to the nines when she's not in the garden! But little does Charley know that this cheerful playboy duke has a dark secret...